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Dante hadn’t had a chance to get well because of that drive into New Jersey. There was no way he could regain his strength just yet, but with a little rest he would be strong soon, because after all he was a young man.
I understood Dante’s dilemma and with me along, I posed another threat to his and my wellbeing.
“Sit, Romeo. You must be hungry. I’m hungry for something too, but it’s not something to eat.” He slid his long tongue around his bottom lip, rubbed his palm along his short beard and motioned for me to sit next to him. I did as he suggested. The moment I sat, he placed his sweaty palm on my leg, and before I could jump to attention he’d palmed my cock.
“I’m with Dante, I hope you know that.”
“I know and that’s what’s puzzling me. How did you do it? How did you manage to do something no woman has managed to do all his life. You turned him into a swish overnight,” he said, picking his teeth and eyeing me in a suggestive manner. Maybe he thought I had some spectacular sexual move, but I was sorry to say I had none, but I wasn’t sharing anything with Nico. I narrowed my glance and took a bite of the garlic bread on a small plate in front of me.
There was that word again. Sounded like my father, and if I knew Nico’s true age, late forties or early fifties, I’d say he was part of his generation. Must have gotten that passed on from his father no doubt. There were far more derogatory terms I’d heard that he could have used, but I thought he selected it because he was indeed gay himself.
“Sit down and I’m not going to tell you anymore. I hope you know that Dante is my brother, and I will hesitate before I kill him, but you, I may torture you before I do anything, and I won’t think twice about it.”
Tell me what I don’t know. He’s telegraphing what he’s planning, and why can’t I get Dante to understand this?
“What is it you want from me?”
He didn’t hesitate, “What I didn’t get from you or do to you before because I was interrupted each time by Dante. At the time I didn’t know what his true intentions were for you, but now I get it.”
I stood up again. “It’s not going to happen.” He seemed surprised I’d refuse him anything with the threat he’d lobbed at me. He offered me a weak smile, and it was then I recognized he wasn’t as strong as he’d pretended, and something had made him weak, but I didn’t know what, and it wasn’t because I refused to comply with his wishes. “I’m going to bed now and sleep with my fiancé.”
“You’re more arrogant now than that scared little boy I cornered in the room. Dante can’t save you from me, though.”
Another threat.
“That’s because I’m not afraid of you anymore and I’ve grown up. And you can go fuck yourself, Nico.” On leaving I gave him the royal salute with my middle finger.
“Your father didn’t teach you any manners—” Nico barked, but I continued walking and yelled.
“Yes, he did, but I’m no gentleman.” And I continued walking, not looking around and scared shitless he’d be behind me, or one of his men would have waylaid me and I’d be gone before Dante stepped out of the shower.
Nico would probably make excuses, and tell Dante that I’d run off again, and if I had any sense, and I wasn’t hung up on Dante and the excitement I’d found myself addicted to, I would, but that was another story.
Chapter 13
Romeo
When I opened the door to Dante’s room on the opposite side of the house across from Nico’s, Dante had walked out of the shower looking gorgeous, handsome, and healthier than before, if that were possible. His dark hair was wet and slicked back, his thick eyebrows thin and shiny, and the dark silky hair on his wide chest covered with small beads of water, and he smelled fuckable.
“What’s the matter, Rome? I knew I shouldn’t have left you with Nico.”
“Then why did you?” I said with a bite in my words. Dante pulled me into his arms, but I pushed away, stood near a wall across from him. “You knew that man was dangerous. But he’s more so now for some reason.”
“Because he doesn’t have anyone to challenge him, but me. He thrives on men who oppose him. You’d think he’d be relieved he controls two families on the east coast, but that’s not enough for Nico. He sees everyone as his enemy including me.”
“And why would you want to challenge him for the boss of this Murder Inc? We can leave and get lost in this country or abroad.” Dante met me with the wall holding me up, and I fell into his arms looking for answers to this shitstorm I’d wandered into. “I don’t want to die and by his hands, Dante,” I pleaded. “Do you know what he said to me?” I was talking incessantly because it’s what I did when I was afraid. “He said he would torture me first. By that I think he wants to cut my dick off after he’s had his way with me. Can you still be alive if he does that?” I felt Dante’s arms close in on me and I drifted into his body for warmth and reassurance.
“He won’t do that, baby. Trust me. Not with me around.”
“Are you sure? I don’t think he gives a fuck who’s around, you included. You know what he did to Alonzo’s brother.”
“He won’t do that, because I won’t let him. I won’t allow anyone to hurt you.”
Somehow Dante’s words were comforting. And I tried to forget, my mind reminding me that I had willingly strolled into a den of snakes.
“I have a confession, Rome—” Dante whispered.
“Another one?” My voice went shrill and I pulled away and sat on a bench because I thought I’d be too weak to stand up. “What are you going to tell me?” I said, glancing up at Dante. “It was you who killed Alonzo, and you were gay all along?”
